I'm in the tropics so we have just one wardrobe and can do daily laundry. We have a dryer for monsoon season when it rains too much to hang clothes out, but basically we do 1-2 loads a day.
We simplified when we downsized and I have no regrets. I'm about to go down again - we're giving away about 500 books, clearing out closets and so on, and it is just so much better. Like, I bought a beautiful bird shapred white wire basket for the kitchen and have been happy looking at it everytime we go in, but it was needed. So I could go and buy something beautiful and more expensive than a plastic box, because there would be just one.
New flat next year, we're building in lots of storage especially for clothes for the reasons CR suggested, but it's still pretty minimal. Have enough for a week's worth of laundry, and specific outfits - I have a work jacket, three night dresses, and six day dresses, for example, but then I'm more minimalist.
Oh! Try packing away most of their wardrobes and then see what has to be brought out, and leave the rest. If a month later you haven't needed to touch it, it was just extra stuff. We got rid of a bunch of stuff that way.
It may not be for you, but paring down hugely has been emotionally and practically fantastic for our family. Muoi has a shoe habit so she has like thirty pairs, but collectively, we have very little stuff, and Jim and I both have very little. Narith has maybe thirty matchbook cars, and two remote control cars, and that's it. The rest, they make or share like board games. The girls had a couple of dolls each but the rest was - collective or they had to make it. Wow, we sound crazy. But it really is good.
Also, being able to buy one beautiful thing instead of three okay things is lovely.
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We simplified when we downsized and I have no regrets. I'm about to go down again - we're giving away about 500 books, clearing out closets and so on, and it is just so much better. Like, I bought a beautiful bird shapred white wire basket for the kitchen and have been happy looking at it everytime we go in, but it was needed. So I could go and buy something beautiful and more expensive than a plastic box, because there would be just one.
New flat next year, we're building in lots of storage especially for clothes for the reasons CR suggested, but it's still pretty minimal. Have enough for a week's worth of laundry, and specific outfits - I have a work jacket, three night dresses, and six day dresses, for example, but then I'm more minimalist.
Oh! Try packing away most of their wardrobes and then see what has to be brought out, and leave the rest. If a month later you haven't needed to touch it, it was just extra stuff. We got rid of a bunch of stuff that way.
It may not be for you, but paring down hugely has been emotionally and practically fantastic for our family. Muoi has a shoe habit so she has like thirty pairs, but collectively, we have very little stuff, and Jim and I both have very little. Narith has maybe thirty matchbook cars, and two remote control cars, and that's it. The rest, they make or share like board games. The girls had a couple of dolls each but the rest was - collective or they had to make it. Wow, we sound crazy. But it really is good.
Also, being able to buy one beautiful thing instead of three okay things is lovely.